Im Not Playing Any More
.. rantings and blog of Chris Williams @scampiuk
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Tuesday, 16 November 2010 11:50
Fixing Inherited parents when importing into K2
Written by Chris WilliamsEver imported an existing Joomla! website into K2, and then swore that you have to set up all the categories?
Joomla! days are about sharing what you know with others, right? How about if you could share that with everyone who can fire up a web browser and find your website? How about doing that for free....
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Thursday, 04 November 2010 14:55
Sig Edit - Edit your K2 Simple Image Gallery labels.txt files
Written by Chris Williams
Ever installed K2 and Simple Image Gallery, passed it to a client and then been stumped at the question: How do I change these titles that appear? Well I was, so I created the SIG Edit component to allow you to edit the Labels file created by Simple Image Gallery and K2!
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With the final day nearly complete, and the sun setting over Ipswich's Suffolk Showground, the last coffies are being drunk and the last conversations are going ahead. I would love to thank the organizers and all those who attended my Video in Joomla talk, so as promised, I've attached the notes and slides.
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Monday, 19 July 2010 11:01
Collective Madness: Social platform usage for the sake of it
Written by Chris WilliamsThere have been great advances in the social component market over the last year or so. Old staples such as Community Builder have had more competition with the likes of JomSocial. All with the goal of quickly turning your Joomla! site into a social hub - have we lost track of an important question: Could we do it in the first place?
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I get may people asking me about linking external databases with Joomla! because they have found my ExternalDB plug-in on the JED - but people often look for different things when they tap in this simple phrase into Google.. I'm going to try to clear up things a little to get people working in the right direction.
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I've been charged with my usual creation of components and modules. It's nothing special, nothing to taxing or complicated, but with the Joomla! 1.6 beta coming up soon, I'm temped to wait and see...
I know I'll have enough to do with J! 1.6 to migrate some sites to it, or more likley, migrate our `standard batch` of plug-ins and modules (you know the ones, the three or four things you always install), just hoping that the development teams for nearly everything are keeping an eye on the development Google Groups for any potential problems (and feature conflicts - I site K2's hierarchical category feature). I've also got to manage my own list of modules/components/plug-ins!
So - how to go about developing new things, now? We've been told that if we adhere to the framework, all will be well. Will it? The alpha is getting better (try the SVN version for a different thing breaking each day 
) So the options are...
- Develop for both 1.5 and 1.6
- Develop for 1.5 and hope....
I don't like ether of these options, so I'll add a third..
Don't develop it
Simple, wait until 1.6 is out. I'm sure the clients won't mind that.
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 21:05
Unlearning the things you taught yourself
Written by Chris WilliamsI'm trying to resolve the problems caused by the self taught nature of my PHP coding. It's not a huge problem, however I do know that there are things that I don't know, don't do with the greatest efficiently as I could be doing.
So, how do you un-learn those years of bad habits? Those methods for doing the every day mundane and routine things that I've developed over years of programming?
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It looks like the JED (http://extensions.joomla.org/) has had a wobbly this afternoon by not doing what it's ment to do, or much in fact. Why do these things always break when you need them, rather than casually browsing them?
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How can you make money from a Joomla! component?
This question has been bugging me for a couple of weeks now. The problem is getting the right mix of security for the code, which lets face it is an investment of time, effort and knowledge, and making the thing available and desirable enough for people to want to use it.
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Chris Williams
chris@imnotplayinganymore.com
PHP & Joomla! Developer
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